Mandarin Chinese
Captain Doris Ju
2011 Year of the Rabbit
Huān yíng Wŏ men hăo gāo xìng nĭ men lái xué zhōng wén!
欢迎！ 我们好高兴你们来学中文！
Welcome! We are so excited that you are learning Mandarin Chinese!
You are making the first steps to experience a language that over one billion people are using in their daily lives!! Congratulations!
Mission For Success
NO FEAR LEARNING CHINESE!
How do students succeed in Mandarin Chinese? Good instruction and good study skills to practice and reinforce new material will help your child succeed. S.M.A. students learn the vocabulary, conversation skills, cultural diversity, and Chinese history they need to be successful in class through differentiated instruction. All our students start out with an “A”. It is up to them and their individual work ethic to keep it. Students can expect to spend 20 minutes each evening learning the new lesson and reviewing the previous lesson. As teachers we will provide all the materials and time in class needed for students to feel comfortable reading and speaking in Mandarin Chinese.
Our goal is for students to move beyond writing in the workbook and reading from the textbook to be able to initiate their own conversation in speaking Mandarin Chinese with others. Students in this class will practice conversational skills both during class time, and at home using websites with audio Chinese dialogue, as well as the Chinese Made Easy language CD they can sign out from the teacher. The more students practice speaking and using Mandarin Chinese at home and during class, the better their conversation skills will be. Learning Mandarin Chinese may be one of the most important influences in a person’s life.
The demand for business people who know Chinese (Mandarin) is
skyrocketing.
Speaking even a little Chinese can greatly enhance your international
business relations!
Chinese is the #1 spoken language in the world!
There are more people speaking Chinese than English. It’s the number
one spoken language in the world.
There are more than 1 billion people who speak Chinese.
One out of five people in the world is Chinese.
Dear Parents and Students:
There is a lot of excitement as we start our school year. My expectations for your child in Mandarin Chinese are as follows:
* To prepare for class * To treat others with respect
* To be treated with respect * To work independently at home
* To be conscientious * To do their own work
* To cooperate in group learning * To enjoy Mandarin Chinese class
* To give their best effort * To ask lots of questions
Mandarin Chinese will be using the textbook, CD and workbook series Chinese Made Easy. Each lesson builds on previous lessons. Each class applies listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Each class emphasizes sentence structure, grammar, and increasing vocabulary. The students will be introduced to Chinese culture.
Goals for our Mandarin Chinese students:
- Become active learners in class.
Be able to recognize and memorize Chinese Characters
- Be able to recognize simple sentences in Chinese Characters without Pinyin
- Make sentences and translate them between English and Mandarin Chinese
- Be able to understand conversation and respond to questions in Mandarin Chinese(auditory)
To test with a minimum of 80% in accuracy (assessment to be given at least weekly)
Expectations for exacting work from our Mandarin Chinese students:
- Weekly assessment is made on the work assigned. Weekly work not done must be made up immediately because subsequent lessons build on previous lessons.
- Students can get help on any lesson or assignment, review the vocabulary words or practice speaking with the instructor, by appointment during lunch.
Class rules:
- Students are expected to listen to the instructor and follow classroom procedures established by S.M.A. (See SMA Handbook)
- Each student will have textbook for use in class and workbook to take home. The textbooks are not to be written in, they belong to the school; the workbooks can be kept by the students. If the text book and workbook are lost or damaged there will be a significant charge to replace them.
- Class work will count as Homework. The grade will count towards the student’s final grade.
- Students cannot meet the requirements of this class without doing the flashcards (index cards) and the assignments in the Workbook.
- It is the student’s responsibility to make sure to go to the bathroom before the class starts. Please do not ask to go to the bathroom during the class unless it is an emergency.
- Students must attend class on time.
- Students who cannot follow the class rules will receive deduction on the employability, detention or referral. (Please read SMA Handbook, SMA POLICY 211 – DISCIPLINE)
Absences:
Absences will be marked unexcused until and unless student provides a written excuse from a parent/guardian. The Main Office now issues the new purple excuse form required, regardless of whether or not the parent called or contacted the school prior to or on the day of a student’s absence.
Students are responsible for finding out what was missed and for making up missed work, tests and assignments. Work missed due to absences for appointments are due same day or upon immediate return to school. Work missed due to absences from illness is due within two days time of your return to school. (See SMA Handbook J. ATTENDANCE AND MAKE-UP WORK)
Tests/Quizzes:
Students will take a test whenever announced by the teacher, covering the material from the previous classes. These tests will be graded and will count towards the final grade.
If a student misses a test due to absence, he/she will be required to make it up on the day of his/her return or the quiz will be marked as zero. Tests are assessments of material mastered.
Assignments and Projects:
Students are responsible for completing in the assignment/projects on time.
To encourage good time management and reward a healthy work ethic student who decides to complete assignments early will receive extra points for their extra effort. With the implementation of Snapgrades, parents and students will be able to see the students progress online. Thank you for the privilege of working with your children.
"Prof. I-Hsiung Ju, father of teacher Ju Laoshi, gave a lecture and
demonstration of Chinese brushwork painting January 6, 2010 to Chinese
III class"
SMA Chinese IV Class Try Chinese Breakfast May
26, 2010
1 Steamed Shrimp Dumpling
2 Steamed Pork Sui Mai
3 Steamed Chives Dumpling
10 Steamed Roast Pork Bun
11 Steamed Lotus Seed Bun
22 Baked Egg Custard Tart
24 Pan Fried Dumpling (Pot Sticker)
43 Chicken Congee
Tea
Catered by Wendy and Jim Tse
Lucky Star Restaurant
4462 Cortez Road, Bradenton, FL 34210
(941) 794-3198
CHINESE PAPER CUTTING
Chinese paper cutting is one of China’s most popular folk-arts. There are designs of dragons, birds, landscapes, people, flowers and sometimes Chinese characters. Most of the time the paper cut is done in one color. Sometimes the paper cuts can be made more colorful by painting them with watercolors or using several layers of different colored paper.
Here are some paper cuts that we did in the Chinese class:
The Character- Double Happiness Fish
WHY study Chinese?
Let other students taking Chinese tell you why!
· Chinese is fun and interesting which makes it easy to learn!
- Often we get together outside of the classroom to speak Chinese, celebrate Chinese holidays, make Chinese food, or watch Chinese movies – and have a lot of fun!
- Chinese is unusual – my friends took common foreign languages and they were jealous of me for taking such an interesting language! It’s a great conversation piece!
- The size of the class is small which makes it easier to learn and the teachers give you a lot of individualized attention.
Speaking Chinese is important for your career!
Mandarin Chinese is a resume-builder: knowing Chinese may give you an edge when competing for an important position!
For students wanting to be involved in business, China is, and will be a major player in international business. China is a wonderful country to study abroad, do a business or education internship in or teach English to Chinese speakers in. The experience is great and it is something one will never forget!
China will play a major role in world affairs in the future. China’s population of more than one billion accounts for a large percentage of the world’s population. As China continues to open up to the West, there will be opportunities for employment in all areas.
International business prefers to hire people who speak more than one language. China is one of the largest markets to work in, and companies are looking for people who can speak Mandarin Chinese.
Speaking Mandarin Chinese can provide career opportunities in private sector intelligence and security, international business, education, foreign diplomat service, government, and as a valuable translator.
Speaking Chinese is
useful!
This is great practice for your new language skills.
Learning Chinese language in high school will help you understand current events you may hear or read about in the news, and give opportunity to learn another language and experience the culture and traditions of mysterious China. Travel to a Chinese speaking country or to a neighboring Chinese restaurant to you a great foundation for taking a Chinese culture, literature or history course in college.
Learning Mandarin Chinese is a powerful exercise that is good for your brain and is being studied as a possible treatment strategy for brain injuries or people affected by a stroke.
The demand for business people who know Chinese
(Mandarin) is skyrocketing.
Speaking even a little Chinese can improve your
career opportunities in business.
Chinese is the #1 spoken language in the world!
There are more people speaking Chinese than
English. It’s the number one spoken language in the world.
FIRST CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION AT SMA! click here for more..
CHINESE LANGUAGE
INSTRUCTION POPULAR IN PUBLIC SCHOOL
(National School Board Association, November 8, 2005) Excerpt:
“With China poised to become the next global economic superpower,
policymakers say it’s essential that American schools expand their
Chinese studies. Worldwide, 1.4 billion people speak Chinese. An
estimated 30,000 to 50,000 K-12 students are now studying Chinese in
U.S. schools…”
NEXT FUTURE TREND: LEARN CHINESE
(Christian Science Monitor, November 8, 2005) Excerpt:
"Chicago itself is home to the largest effort to include Chinese in US
public schools. The program here has grown to include 3,000 students in
20 schools, with more schools on a waiting list. Programs have also
spread to places like Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, and North
Carolina.”
GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVE: KNOW CHINA
(Philadelphia
Inquirer, October 31, 2005) Excerpt:
"In a push to prepare students for the ever-changing global marketplace,
the Philadelphia School District is expanding classes in Mandarin
Chinese - the most prevalent language in the world, yet largely
neglected by the nation's schools until the last few years. More than
1,700 students are taking Chinese this year at six district high schools
and three elementary schools -up from 900 two years ago."
CHINESE
AT 2,300 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE
WORLD…. (Rediff.com,
India Abroad, October, 2005)
“The
number of foreign students in China, now 85,000, exceeds the number of
Chinese studying abroad. Not a bad record for a country still classified
as a developing nation. Globally, 2,300 colleges teach Chinese, with an
estimated 20 million people learning the language. With China's Internet
usage expanding rapidly, Mandarin users should overtake those using
English within a decade. The runaway success of baidu.com, a Google-type
Chinese language site, is testimony to the coming times.”
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